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NYTimes Best Sellers: Paperback Nonfiction

New York Times API Dev Portal, opens in a new windowAuthoritatively ranked lists of books sold in the United States. Find more lists of chart-topping books on our New York Times Best Seller Lists page.

Most links below are to print books; check Overdrive for eBooks. Book covers provided by Syndetics depending on availability.

Find The Body Keeps The Score in LINKcat
#1
345 weeks on the list
by Bessel van der Kolk | Penguin

How trauma affects the body and mind, and innovative treatments for recovery.

Find On Tyranny in LINKcat
#2
124 weeks on the list
by Timothy Snyder | Crown

Twenty lessons from the 20th century about the course of tyranny.

Find The Wager in LINKcat
#3
14 weeks on the list
by David Grann | Vintage

The survivors of a shipwrecked British vessel on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain have different accounts of events.

Find The Backyard Bird Chronicles in LINKcat
#4
52 weeks on the list
by Amy Tan | Knopf

Essays and drawings by the author of “The Joy Luck Club” and “The Bonesetter's Daughter,” which depict a search for peace through birding.

Find Prequel in LINKcat
#5
4 weeks on the list
by Rachel Maddow | Crown

The MSNBC host details a campaign to overthrow the U.S. government and install authoritarian rule prior to and during our involvement in World War II.

Find Braiding Sweetgrass in LINKcat
#6
268 weeks on the list
by Robin Wall Kimmerer | Milkweed Editions

A botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation espouses having an understanding and appreciation of plants and animals.

Find Educated in LINKcat
#7
94 weeks on the list
by Tara Westover | Random House

The daughter of survivalists, who is kept out of school, educates herself enough to leave home for university.

Find Signs in LINKcat
#8
9 weeks on the list
by Laura Lynne Jackson | Dial

A medium details potential ways the deceased may speak to us through everyday events.

Find The British Are Coming in LINKcat
#9
5 weeks on the list
by Rick Atkinson | Holt

The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist begins his Revolution Trilogy with events from 1775 to 1777.

Find The Glass Castle in LINKcat
#10
505 weeks on the list
by Jeannette Walls | Scribner

The author recalls how she and her siblings were constantly moved from one bleak place to another.

Find Grit in LINKcat
#11
154 weeks on the list
by Angela Duckworth | Scribner

The MacArthur Fellow argues that passion and perseverance are more important than innate talent in creating success.

Find Greenlights in LINKcat
#12
29 weeks on the list
by Matthew McConaughey | Crown

The Academy Award-winning actor shares snippets from the diaries he kept over 35 years.

Find The Wide Wide Sea in LINKcat
#13
1 weeks on the list
by Hampton Sides | Vintage

The author of “On Desperate Ground” depicts Captain James Cook’s final voyage and the controversies surrounding its legacy.

Find Empire Of The Summer Moon in LINKcat
#14
74 weeks on the list
by S.C. Gwynne | Scribner

The story of Quanah Parker, the last chief of the Comanches.

Find All About Love in LINKcat
#15
155 weeks on the list
by bell hooks | Morrow

The late feminist icon explores the causes of a polarized society and the meaning of love.